You Can Always Carry Harder (Again...and again)

PrismalDawn·Dec 24, 2018·6 votes·5,100 views

Since my last post got deleted for

violating the Boards Universal Rules and sub-board guidelines, which prohibit the posting of low-effort and non-constructive content.

I will say this.

As a support, you are not limited to supporting your "ADC" which half the time get one shotted by everything, tanks included aside from the fact that most need 6 items to even be useful.

Notice, I had more kill participation than our jungler, and that is because I ganked more than our jungler. Again, you are not restricted to supporting a baby. I'd rather feed someone who is useful with 2 items just as well as with 6.

tl;dr

Learn to gank as a support.

6 Comments

DuskDaUmbreonDec 24, 20182 votes

The ADC usually gets to that point when you abandon them to die.

Yeah, you're not supposed to protect just the ADC, but the rest of the team is playing champions that can survive on their own.

Xin and Yasuo could probably win most 1v1s at that point, and Lissandra has her claw dash thing, R, Protobelt, and Zhonya's. All three of them can survive relatively decently on their own.

Meanwhile, they had two assassins and two champions who are really good in 1v1s.

If there's someone threatening 4 people, do you protect one of the three wearing a bulletproof vest on top of steel plate? Or do you protect the small child? Yeah if the first three are in significant danger despite their protection you should help them out if you can, but your priority should be the person who has no protection.

PrismalDawnDec 24, 20181 votes

Yeah if the first three are in significant danger despite their protection you should help them out if you can, but your priority should be the person who has no protection.

Fuck the person with no protection and let the enemy waste their resources on them since that's what happens half the time.

xDogMeatxDec 24, 20181 votes

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Fuck the person with no protection and let the enemy waste their resources on them since that's what happens half the time.

honestly thats funny in a sick way, although you should just protect the 0 defenses person if its in your power or reach to do such thing.

PrismalDawnDec 25, 20181 votes

If the person with 0 defenses provides nothing to the fight just let them go. They are dead weight

Eons3Dec 25, 20181 votes

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The ADC usually gets to that point when you abandon them to die.

Yeah, you're not supposed to protect just the ADC, but the rest of the team is playing champions that can survive on their own.

Xin and Yasuo could probably win most 1v1s at that point, and Lissandra has her claw dash thing, R, Protobelt, and Zhonya's. All three of them can survive relatively decently on their own.

Meanwhile, they had two assassins and two champions who are really good in 1v1s.

If there's someone threatening 4 people, do you protect one of the three wearing a bulletproof vest on top of steel plate? Or do you protect the small child? Yeah if the first three are in significant danger despite their protection you should help them out if you can, but your priority should be the person who has no protection.

Adcs become useless when they either do 1 of 2 things

are uselesss and are never going to be useful because of a matchup they do not understand
are left to die by their team that gives no peel to the point they no longer feel safe trying to fight. Im guessing this adc was part of number 1, and the leona recognized this and left lane to dominate mid. Sometimes the bad player WILL NOT LEARN. cant protect them sometimes, but you can try to help the team win. Question is, does the adc know how to play safe when no one is helping protect them. Thats the REAL test of a good adc player.

Eons3Dec 25, 20181 votes

Honestly doesnt look like a carry tbh. Enemy team looks like the 2 BEST players were hard carrying the 3 worst and you shut one of them down in teamfights repeatedly. The Gold advantage is all on your team, meaning you were winning most of the game at least gold wise/gold is game wise. So ima go and say you did exceptionally well, but that was the enemy teams irelia TRYING to carry and failing. I dont mean to belittle such an amazing score, but carrying is when a game is a definite loss if someone else was playing your champ. Sick game tho